Promise at Dawn ( Florida Premiere | Directed by Eric Barbier) French with English subtitlesNominated for four César Awards and starring Charlotte Gainsbourg, Promise at Dawn is a poignant and powerful epic about the extraordinary life of renowned Jewish writer and French war hero, Romain Gary, who embodied the spirit of adventure.

Inside the Mossad(Southeast US Premiere | Directed by Duki Dror) Hebrew with English subtitlesFor the first time since its founding, this perceptive documentary brings to the screen the stories of former Mossad spy-chiefs and the top-secret operations that have shaped Israel's past and may yet shape its future.

Echo(Southeast US Premiere | Directed by Amikam Kovner & Assaf Snir) Hebrew with English subtitlesNominated for five Israeli Academy Awards, this stylishly romantic, sensual, and true-to-life exploration of the intricacies of relationships centers on an engineer who suspects his psychologist wife (Yaël Abecassis) of having an affair and obsesses about uncovering the truth.

Shoelaces(South Florida Premiere | Directed Jacob Goldwasser) Hebrew with English subtitlesNominated for 8 Israeli Academy Awards including Best Picture, Shoelaces tells the gently comic story of the heartfelt relationship between an aging father and his exuberant special-needs adult son, who he abandoned while he was still a young boy.

Driver(South Florida Premiere | Directed by Yehonatan Indursky) Hebrew with English subtitlesFrom the creator of Shtisel and the producers of The Kindergarten Teacher and The Women’s Balcony, comes a tender drama about a driver in an ultra-Orthodox community who takes his daughter on his nightly journeys.

Redemption(Southeast US Premiere | Directed by Yossi Madmoni & Boaz Yehonatan Yacov) Hebrew with English subtitlesIn this spiritually rousing and affecting story of faith, love, and making peace with the past, a devout Hasid must return to his younger, rock star days in order to pay for his daughter’s expensive medical bills. Winner of the Audience Award at the Jerusalem Film Festival.

Touching the Sky(Southeast US Premiere | Directed by Tamar Tal) Hebrew with English subtitlesFor the first time on film, six young women who made it to the IDF’s prestigious pilot course are featured, sharing their personal stories, dreams, fears, and demonstrating how they put their lives on the line to protect their families and defend their homeland.

Paris Song(Southeast US Premiere | Directed by Jeff Vespa) English language filmIn the style of grand movie entertainment, Paris Song tells the true story of a small-town singer’s journey from Kazakhstan to Paris to compete in an international singing competition at the 1925 Paris Expo, and the unlikely friendship he forms along the way with Jewish songwriters Irving Berlin and George Gershwin.

Bigger(Florida Premiere | Directed by George Gallo) English language filmThis inspiring biopic recounts the story of the Weider Brothers as they overcame anti-Semitism and poverty to pioneer the sport of bodybuilding, create the Mr. Olympia competition, discover Arnold Schwarzenegger, and start a movement that changed the world and launched an empire now worth billions.

Who Will Write Our History(Florida Premiere | Directed by Roberta Grossman) Yiddish, English, Polish with English subtitlesThis powerful documentary from director Roberta Grossman and executive producer Nancy Spielberg tells the story of underground resister Emanuel Ringelblum (voiced by Oscar-winner Adrien Brody) and the Oyneg Shabes Archive, the secret collection of documents he created in the Warsaw Ghetto. Director Roberta Grossman will be in attendance.

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